528. Best WordPress Security Plugin 2018 and 2017 - Review and Comparison of Top Free and Premium Versions of New Plugins and Support Services from Several Companies
Updated on: 2018-05-08
Posted on: 2017-02-22
WordPress is the most popular Web publishing platform. Since it is used by many Web site owners, it is also a target of many security exploits.
Many WordPress site owners do not know enough about security to protect their sites from being abused. Therefore they need to use plugins and tools to help them prevent and eventually fix security issues.
Read this this article to compare the features of the most recommended WordPress security plugins so you can pick one that addresses your needs.
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Many WordPress site owners do not know enough about security to protect their sites from being abused. Therefore they need to use plugins and tools to help them prevent and eventually fix security issues.
Read this this article to compare the features of the most recommended WordPress security plugins so you can pick one that addresses your needs.
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Updated on: 2017-02-25
Posted on: 2017-02-08
Since PHP 7 was introduced and PHP 5 end of support life was reached, many hosting companies dropped PHP 5 from their servers and PHP developers were forced to migrate their code to work with PHP 7.
One of the changes of PHP 7 was the discontinuation of the original MySQL extension. Developers had to choose to migrate their code to use either the MySQLi or and the PDO extension.
Read this article to learn about the differences and decide which is the best for you to migrate your code to work on PHP 7 or later, as well learn about some recommended packages that use PDO or MySQLi for performing common database purposes like backup, security, user registration and login, database abstraction, ORM (Object-Relational Mapping), etc..
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One of the changes of PHP 7 was the discontinuation of the original MySQL extension. Developers had to choose to migrate their code to use either the MySQLi or and the PDO extension.
Read this article to learn about the differences and decide which is the best for you to migrate your code to work on PHP 7 or later, as well learn about some recommended packages that use PDO or MySQLi for performing common database purposes like backup, security, user registration and login, database abstraction, ORM (Object-Relational Mapping), etc..
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Updated on: 2017-01-30
Posted on: 2017-01-30
This is the January 2017 edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP articles published recently.
In the edition they discuss articles about PHP performance comparison and evolution since PHP 5 to PHP 8 or PHP 7.2, a tool for helping to develop scalable PHP applications, tutorial on how to create a PHP secure login and registration system, and tutorial on processing Word Processing documents in RTF format.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.
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In the edition they discuss articles about PHP performance comparison and evolution since PHP 5 to PHP 8 or PHP 7.2, a tool for helping to develop scalable PHP applications, tutorial on how to create a PHP secure login and registration system, and tutorial on processing Word Processing documents in RTF format.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.
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Updated on: 2017-01-27
Posted on: 2017-01-27
Lob is a suite of REST APIs for building applications for the enterprise market. It provides very useful services controlled via a Web API that allow businesses to order the print and deliver materials by postal mail.
The most interesting API is a print and mail service that enables companies to send postcards, letters, checks, and more, with the same as effort as sending emails.
Read this article to learn how to take advantage of the LOB APIs to send all these types of physical world mailings from PHP applications.
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The most interesting API is a print and mail service that enables companies to send postcards, letters, checks, and more, with the same as effort as sending emails.
Read this article to learn how to take advantage of the LOB APIs to send all these types of physical world mailings from PHP applications.
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Updated on: 2017-01-27
Posted on: 2017-01-25
In the Web development world, we often have the problem of choosing the right server to use in the production environment of a Web application.
Maybe we need to buy a new server to handle the expected load, or maybe the customer wants to deploy in an existing server.
In any case, if after deploying and running the application it will show poor performance, then we need to ask the team what we can do to make the application faster or use a better server.
Therefore we need to determine if the application is performing well. Read this article to learn how to quickly determine the performance of an application on the current server.
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Maybe we need to buy a new server to handle the expected load, or maybe the customer wants to deploy in an existing server.
In any case, if after deploying and running the application it will show poor performance, then we need to ask the team what we can do to make the application faster or use a better server.
Therefore we need to determine if the application is performing well. Read this article to learn how to quickly determine the performance of an application on the current server.
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Updated on: 2016-12-13
Posted on: 2016-12-12
If your web site project is expected to handle many concurrent requests, then you must develop with scalability in mind, so you can eliminate or minimize down time.
While there are many facets to scalability, load testing is how you prove your concept in development instead of crossing your fingers and hoping everything works out in production.
Learn some of the basic concepts behind load testing, like bottlenecks, scaling, concurrent virtual users and instantaneous peak.
Read this article learn how to perform proper Web site load testing with the WAPT tool.
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While there are many facets to scalability, load testing is how you prove your concept in development instead of crossing your fingers and hoping everything works out in production.
Learn some of the basic concepts behind load testing, like bottlenecks, scaling, concurrent virtual users and instantaneous peak.
Read this article learn how to perform proper Web site load testing with the WAPT tool.
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Updated on: 2018-03-17
Posted on: 2016-12-07
Since its creation in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, the PHP language has gone through many improvements. Performance is one of the main criteria developers consider when they evaluate upgrading to a newer version.
Read this article to learn how performance improved across the latest PHP versions starting from PHP 5 up to the latest developments, including the recent version 7.1 with opcache optimizations, as well as the experimental JIT branch that will be become part of PHP 8 or PHP 7.2 the next version.
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Read this article to learn how performance improved across the latest PHP versions starting from PHP 5 up to the latest developments, including the recent version 7.1 with opcache optimizations, as well as the experimental JIT branch that will be become part of PHP 8 or PHP 7.2 the next version.
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Updated on: 2017-10-19
Posted on: 2016-11-21
Many users want to download YouTube videos, either to watch offline or to take backups of their own videos.
Despite it is against YouTube terms of use, many of those users resort to PHP scripts to automate download. However, since YouTube has changed the way their video players work, PHP scripts that worked in the past, do not work anymore.
Read this article to learn about existing PHP scripts that can solve the problem of downloading YouTube or Vimeo videos using PHP in any Website.
As a bonus you may also learn how to search in YouTube for movie trailers of 2018, 2017, 2016, or any other year, as well get more information about movies and TV show episodes from the IMDB site.
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Despite it is against YouTube terms of use, many of those users resort to PHP scripts to automate download. However, since YouTube has changed the way their video players work, PHP scripts that worked in the past, do not work anymore.
Read this article to learn about existing PHP scripts that can solve the problem of downloading YouTube or Vimeo videos using PHP in any Website.
As a bonus you may also learn how to search in YouTube for movie trailers of 2018, 2017, 2016, or any other year, as well get more information about movies and TV show episodes from the IMDB site.
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Updated on: 2019-02-28
Posted on: 2016-11-15
Most PHP developers use an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to become more productive. There several PHP IDEs, some more advanced than others, some are commercial and others are free.
Read this article to compare the features of some of the most popular IDEs being used by PHP developers, so you can decide which one suits you best.
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Read this article to compare the features of some of the most popular IDEs being used by PHP developers, so you can decide which one suits you best.
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Updated on: 2016-10-31
Posted on: 2016-10-31
This is the October edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP articles published recently.
In the edition the discuss articles about finding great developer jobs in 2016, implementing non-obvious MySQL optimization tricks, improving the protection of OAuth based applications against user account leaks, how to calculate VAT in PHP for products in any european country, as well several other articles to help software developers to create their own software product businesses.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.
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In the edition the discuss articles about finding great developer jobs in 2016, implementing non-obvious MySQL optimization tricks, improving the protection of OAuth based applications against user account leaks, how to calculate VAT in PHP for products in any european country, as well several other articles to help software developers to create their own software product businesses.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.
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